1. Soemanang Soerjowinoto was an Indonesian journalist, politician, and banker.
18 Facts About Soemanang Soerjowinoto
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Soemanang Soerjowinoto was one of the co-founders of the Antara news agency and he was a chief editor of the Pemandangan newspaper during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies.
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Soemanang Soerjowinoto was born in Yogyakarta, then part of the Dutch East Indies, on 1 May 1908.
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Soemanang Soerjowinoto was a descendant of the Pakualaman noble family, and his father was a mid-ranking official in the Yogyakarta Sultanate.
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Soemanang Soerjowinoto studied at the Rechts-Hogeschool in Batavia, specializing in socioeconomic affairs.
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Under the Dutch administration, Soemanang Soerjowinoto worked as a civil servant for the Semarang landraad.
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Soemanang Soerjowinoto worked for the Japanese Consulate in Batavia between 1936 and 1940, where he was a translator.
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Soemanang Soerjowinoto then became the legal adviser for the Tjahaja Timoer newspaper.
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In 1937, Soemanang Soerjowinoto founded a weekly publication in Bogor, named Perantaraan.
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Soemanang Soerjowinoto later proposed the founding of a national news agency.
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Soemanang Soerjowinoto continued to work in journalism, becoming the chief editor of the Pemandangan newspaper in 1940.
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In 1946, the Indonesian Journalists Association was founded, and Soemanang Soerjowinoto was elected as its first chairman.
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Soemanang Soerjowinoto further founded the daily newspaper Nasional in Yogyakarta in November 1946, in addition to the magazines Wanita Indonesia and Revue Indonesia, and the Javanese-language pamphlet Biwara.
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Soemanang Soerjowinoto had joined the Indonesian National Party, where he became the chair of its economic department in 1946.
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Soemanang Soerjowinoto was a member of the Central Indonesian National Committee, and he was later appointed as a representative of the Republic of Indonesia to the Senate of the United States of Indonesia, representing the Republic, in 1950, through the United States of Indonesia was defederalized six months after his appointment and Soemanang became a member of the Provisional People's Representative Council instead.
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Soemanang Soerjowinoto was appointed as the Minister of Economic Affairs in the Wilopo Cabinet in April 1952.
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Additionally, alongside Interior Minister Mohammad Roem, Soemanang Soerjowinoto ordered the issuance of 50 million identity cards for registry purposes.
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Soemanang Soerjowinoto served as an executive director in the International Monetary Fund for some time, representing Indonesia, Algeria, Ghana, Laos, Libya, Morocco a Tunisia.